tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post1998901158085749802..comments2020-04-01T08:49:12.322-07:00Comments on Dark Buzz: The problems with Everett's many worldsRogerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474078324293158376noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-86709739196998288942015-04-21T15:15:46.488-07:002015-04-21T15:15:46.488-07:00In the words of James Joyce: &quot;Panoplous pereg...In the words of James Joyce: &quot;Panoplous peregrine pifflicative pomposity!&quot;<br /><br />&quot;Your cheesechalk cow cudd...chalkem up, hemptyempty!﻿&quot;<br /><br />Well, finger painting is now considered an art form. Anything goes Cole!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-41280399034360573872015-04-13T11:55:17.286-07:002015-04-13T11:55:17.286-07:00Last paragraph of Bernard Lavenda&#39;s book, &#39...Last paragraph of Bernard Lavenda&#39;s book, &#39;Where Physics Went Wrong&#39;:<br /><br />&quot;As I have tried to show in this book, you can’t build edifices on quagmires.<br />In the end, it all leads back to Einstein’s general relativity, which is<br />much less general than the special case, and certainly much less relative.<br />In short, it is not applicable to the task it was developed for; the universe<br />cannot be modelled as a perfect fluid. The same is even truer of string<br />theory, which cannot boast of a single physical prediction. Multiverse is a<br />sad excuse for not seeking the actual laws that govern physical phenomena.<br />Admittedly, we have not made any theoretical progress in the hundred years<br />that general relativity, and the nearly fifty years that string theory, have<br />been around. It’s time for a new start and to wipe the slate clean.&quot;<br /><br />and how bout this viewpoint on Master Witten:<br /><br />&quot;String theory is actually a religion with Witten as its false prophet.<br />His bible, M-Theory, explaining what superstring theory is, still has to be written. (With M remaining undefined, the readers await a Miracle, or<br />Messiah.)&quot;<br /><br />He also says &#39;t Hooft should be stripped of his nobel prize and that Hawking basically never did anything right. Bernard is no fan of Schlafly or Woit. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8148573551417578681.post-66964667483962062182015-04-13T10:29:29.893-07:002015-04-13T10:29:29.893-07:00Another book has come out on the massive fraud goi...Another book has come out on the massive fraud going on in physics. I don&#39;t think the Reverend Motl will be pleased. This author actually references Rogers book, albeit in a negative way:<br /><br />&quot;In a most scathing attack on Einstein and his science, Schlafly finds it necessary to detract, rather than criticize what can be considered as Einstein&#39;s sole scientific offspring: general relativity which is not a generalization of his special relativity since it contains no relativity at all&quot;<br /><br />About this Book<br />The book points out what has gone wrong with physics since Einstein&#39;s formulation of this theory of general relativity a century ago. It points out inconsistencies and fallacies in the standard model of the big bang and the inflationary scenario which was supposed to have overcome those shortcomings, the evolution of string theory from a theory of the strong interaction to a theory of gravitation and quantum mechanics which has not produced a single verifiable prediction, and what it has accomplished is reaffirming wrong results like the entropy of a black hole, which is not an entropy at all. There have even been attempts to demote gravity to an emergent phenomenon with catastrophic effects. We know exactly what happened at 10-34 seconds after the big bang, but do not know how fast gravity propagates, whether gravitational waves exist, and what are the limits of Newton&#39;s law. Attempts to rectify this are the prediction of dark energy/matter, which has never been observed nor ever will, and MOND. The latter is really not a modification of Newtonian mechanics, but a transformation of a dynamical law into a statistical one.<br /><br />&quot;Where Physics Went Wrong&quot; 2015 World Scientific<br /><br />Contents:<br />Introduction<br />The Unobservable Universe<br />Is the Universe Hydrodynamic?<br />Is General Relativity Viable?<br />Is Gravity an Emergent Phenomenon?<br />What is the Vacuum?<br />Do Negative Heat Capacities Exist?<br />Has String Theory Become a Religion?<br />EpilogueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com